Hey guys, just another quick question. My mother has a .38 special, she and my father got divorced several years ago and she wants to pick up her gun but we are both unsure about the laws around this. Her only form of transportation is public and considering that I have a car I figured I would just be able to take her to pick it up in my vehicle. Can I pick it up by myself? Are there any new laws pertaining to how it should be transported? How do we do a change of address for the firearm? Thanks in advanced.

Hey guys, just another quick question. My mother has a .38 special, she and my father got divorced several years ago and she wants to pick up her gun but we are both unsure about the laws around this. Her only form of transportation is public and considering that I have a car I figured I would just be able to take her to pick it up in my vehicle. Can I pick it up by myself? Are there any new laws pertaining to how it should be transported? How do we do a change of address for the firearm? Thanks in advanced.

 

Technically you can not even touch the gun unless you were at a FFL, Firearms shop or a range WITH the owner. Only the legal owner should transport the gun. If she is the legal owner you and her can get the gun, just transport it unloaded in the trunk of your vehicle, if its a SUV or other vehicle that doesn't have a separate location to store it you need to have it in a locked container and not a center consul or glove box.

 

Harry

Ok thanks. Any word on the change of address?

Ok thanks. Any word on the change of address?

 

There is no need to inform anyone if you move.

 

If you move and have a firearms purchaser ID, you may legally file for a change of address. This is not a legal requirement, only if you wish to use the purchaser ID to buy long guns or handgun ammunition. There is no "registration address" for a firearm that needs to get updated.

O ok, she was worried about having to go through another process

O ok, she was worried about having to go through another process

You never mentioned WHERE the gun is now, and whether or not it's "booked-in" at a FFL. If it's booked-in, she may have to go through the paperwork process to get it back.

 

If it was being repaired at a Gunsmith's place of business, she as the owner has to go get it. An "errand-boy" won't do in NJ.

There is no need to inform anyone if you move.

 

If you move and have a firearms purchaser ID, you may legally file for a change of address. This is not a legal requirement, only if you wish to use the purchaser ID to buy long guns or handgun ammunition. There is no "registration address" for a firearm that needs to get updated.

Technically a p2p is registration to that address on the permit Idk what happens of you move but technically each p2p is an involuntary registration held at local pd and state police I believe

Technically a p2p is registration to that address on the permit Idk what happens of you move but technically each p2p is an involuntary registration held at local pd and state police I believe

 

I agree, it's registration. However, the issue was "if I move, do I have to update an address for the gun" and the answer to that is clearly no. Guns don't have homes complete with current address, they have the address to which they were purchased against and in the event it is found at a crime scene, it will be tracked forward to the original purchaser.

True it is a way to track to owner by registration. And it is extremely easy to take that original address and name and find current address ( about a minute on a gov comp with appropriate database access) so although you don't need to register new address the damage is already done

It's actually locked in a safe at my fathers house.

I would said the key thing is if it was originally purchased and registered to your mother. As long as she is in possession of it ie with you during transport and is kept with her in her residence. You are g2g

If not she needs to get a p2p and get it in her. Name

Ok so she's good. It's always been in her name.

Do not take my word as legal advice but she should be good

No worries, I would still confirm with law enforcement in both municipalities.

No worries, I would still confirm with law enforcement in both municipalities.

 

Don't do that! They are cops, not attorneys and if you tell them somthing that leads them to believe you are in violation of the law, you could be arrested. Besides, if you were arrested in another area, your defense of "my local PD told me it was okay" would be worthless. Contact Gary Needleman in Boonton and get the facts on the law. Be safe - after all, we're in NJ.

Don't do that! They are cops, not attorneys and if you tell them somthing that leads them to believe you are in violation of the law, you could be arrested. Besides, if you were arrested in another area, your defense of "my local PD told me it was okay" would be worthless. Contact Gary Needleman in Boonton and get the facts on the law. Be safe - after all, we're in NJ.

 

Lee Van Cleef is 100% CORRECT!

 

That's why I asked where the gun was. If it's in her name, she's responsible for it, not your Dad. If there aren't any funky "orders of protection" or anything else that would make either of them a "prohibited person", then she just drives over to the house and picks it up herself. And then transports it in the trunk, where she can't get to it. If there is anything different or being left-out, then consult an attorney. Nothing that anybody says here is hard wired. In the State Police blue firearms pamphlet it states that the County Prosecutors have final say and that the laws are "open to interpretation". Remember the stink with the AG's letter involving magazines?? this is NJ after-all!

 

Dave

well i asked earlier this morning before any of these comments and they were pretty helpful, just said that she had to be in the car and gun in the trunk, ammunition separate.